License plate holder



Dec. 1, 1931. J, DQLAN ET AL 1,834,690

LICENSE PLATE HOLDER Filed March 19, 1931 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 1, 1931 I ED T ES* PATENT OFFICE DAVID J. DOLAN, F CLEVELANDHEIGHTS, OHIO, AND JAMES J. QUINN, OF CHESTER,

, 'PENNSYLVANIA i i LICENSE PLATE nor-DER hpplicationfiledllarch:19, 1931.- Serial No. 523,678.

This invention relates to means for attaching to automotive vehicles the license plates required to be displayed thereon. f The object of the invention is to provide a device for the purpose,to be permanently attached to the license plate and removably attachable to the vehicle. "Particularly, a further object is to provide such a device universally adapted for attachment to any of a-number of vehicles having as many diiferent convenient parts from might be displayed. thatt'he device of this invention is intended to serve a dealer or the like whose requirements are that a single license plate or set of plates may be used on frequent'occasions on difi'erent vehicles. Thus the device is once permanently secured to the license plate and thereafter attached to the usual. rear license plate holder, the usual front headlight support rod,

the same taken as in the plane of line 2-2,

is a side elevationof the device a Fig. 1; Fig. 3 the bumper appearing in cross-section; and

Fig. 4C is a view similar to Fig. 3 but illustrating the manner of ttachment to a transverse rod of the vehicle such as that lights.

With reference now to the drawings, tor

a pair of similar devices are employed, one for each side of the plate.

The principalparts of the device are a bar 1, a clip 2, and a post 3. The bar 1 is simply a length of stiff strap metal, of length that of the height of the license plate, and punched out at its ends as at 4: to provide a I pair of fingers 5. The size of the fingers and their location is such that when bent to outbetween headeach license plate plate.

which a license plate Thus it will be'apparentor the front .or rear bumper, of any of a numshown as attached to a bumper of the vehicle,

stand from the bar, they will pass through the bolt openings 6 provided in the license The bar is attached to the license plate by bending down the fingers 5 after passing them through the 0penings-6 as shown Fig. 2.

The post 3 is secured to the bar near its upper en'd as by riveting as indicated. The

post is slightly tapered also as indicated, and -is of such size that it will extend into the.

opening 7 of the license plate holding bracket 8 provided dependent from the tail light 9 at the rear of the vehicle, but will notentirely pass therethrough-that is, will not allow the bar 1 to come up entirely to the bracket 8.

The clip 2 is secured to the-bar 1' as by a rivet 10, a separator washer llgbeing positioned onthe-rivet between the parts vfor a purpose which will appear. so tight upon the clip but that the clip may be swung thereabout as in the plane of the v license plate as indicated at A, Fig. 1. The, clip is a spring clip and the relation and pro portions of the parts are such that the upper end of the clipwill be yieldably urged to-' ward a bearing upon the bar when theclip is swung thereoyer. The clip is provided with an opening 12 so positioned as to register with the post 3, the size of the opening being The rivet is not such that it will receive the post and move thereover to bear against that portion of the bar-1 thereabout. The clip is turned back at its free extreinityas at 13 to provide a handle by which the clip maybe sprungover the post, and the intermediate portionof the clipisarched away from the bar as indicated, Figs. 2, 3 and 4. v g I As stated, two'of these devices are secured to a license plate, one at either end thereof and-therebehind, an d made fa'stbyharn1nerv ing the fingers 5 down against the front face of the plate. Supposing now'thelicense' plate is to be secured upon the rear bracket 8 of the vehicle, down as at A, Fig. 1.Q The two posts 3 are inserted one in each of thefslots 7 0 the bracket,*the insertion-being from the rear so that-the face of the license-plate will be 'presented, re'arwardly "of thejvehicle. handle 13 of one otjthe clips 2'is grasped'and the clips of eachedevice being swung upon the face of the plate,

bumpers 14 of the vehicle, the parts are somanipulated that the bumper is received between the post 3 and the separator 11, and between the clip 2 and thebar 1,Vas in Fig..3.c The parts are so proportioned that the upper end-of the clip Qiengages theadjacent corner or edge of the bumper, instead of bearing against the bar 1, as indicated in the drawings. Of course, both ends of the license plate are sosecured each by one unit dev ce.

hen the plate is to besecured upon the headlight support rod 15 of the vehicle,-as in Fig. 4, the general arrangement will be as in Fig. 3 except that the rod will now be seated .'in the curvatures orarches of the clips, as

indicated, so as to be clamped between-the clips and their bars 1 by the resilience of the clips. Tiere again the upper extremities of the clipsdo not bear against their bars 1.

Obviously removal of the. plate, together with itssecuring devices, from the vehicle, can bereadily accomplished at any time by simply reversing the method of attachment. What weclaim is: I 11;. A device 01"? the class described comprising a bar adapted to be secured upright upon the back of a license plate, a post rearwardly extending from the upper portion of said bar, and a spring cliphaving an opening to re- ,ceive said post and extending therebelow',

with-its lower end secured on saidbar to maintain its upper end in yieldable engagement with the bar. 7 v

2.. A device of the class described comprising a bar adapted to be permanently secured upright upon the back of the license plate, said bar having for the purpose integral fingers adapted to be inserted in the bolt openings in the license plate and bent down a post rearwardly extending from the upper portion of the bar, anda spring clip having an opening to receive said post and extending therebelow, with its lower end secured on said bar to maintain itsupper end in yieldable engagement with the bar. V v v 3. A device of the class described comprising a; bar. adapted to be secured upright upon the back of a license plate, a post rearwardly extendingfrom the upper portion of said bar and adaptedto be. inserted in'the bolt openingof a license plate holder of a vehide, and "a spring. clip having an opening to; receive saidipost and extend therebelow, with itslower end securedon said bar to tlieback ofalicense plate, a post rearwardly extending from the upper'portion of said bar," and a spring clip having an opening adapted to receive said post and 7 extending:

therebeliow, with its lower end pivotally secured with said bar to swing thereon in the planeof theplate, whereby said clip maybe swung upon said bar and sprung over said post to position its opening about the latter and will therebe ma-intained i'nyieldable ag m tw hh bflll? H c.

5. A deviceofcthe class,descrihedco nprisinga; baradapted torbes ec ired upri'ght. upon the back ofarli-cense plate, a post rearwardly extending. from theu pper portion of said bar,

to form; a handle whereby the clip may be sprung from saidpost, n n n A 6,. A device ofv the class described comprisand a spring clip having an opening to receive said post. and, extending therebelow,, Vwitl its. lower end secured 'on said bar to maintain its: upper end, in yieldable engageing a bar adaptedv to be permanently secured:

upright upon-. the back of arlicense plate,.a

postrearwardly extending fromv the upper portionof said bar, and a spring clip having anopenin-g to-receive said. post and extending therebelow, with its lower end secured on said bar to maintain its upper end in yieldable engageinent'with the bar ,.sa-id clip having an intermediate portion arched away from said.

barto ce'i've a vehicle part upon which the license plate is to be mounted. i

7. A device of the class described comprising abar adapted-to be permanently secured upright upon the back of a license plate, a post rearwardly extending from the upper portion of. said bar, and aspring. clip. having an openin-g adap.ted' to receive said post. and

extending therebelow with its lower endpivotally securedto said ebar to swing in the plane of the plate, and a separator atthe pivot tospacesaidclip from saidlbar whereby a vehicle bumper may be received between thepartsand the clip swung thereover with out pinching I the bumper, said clip being sprung to yieldably urge its free end toward said plate, 7

In testimony whereof we hereby aflix our signatures.

- v DAVID J; DOLAN. JAMES QUINN. 

